FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Please List
“ANTICIPATION”
June 7- July 2, 2022
Opening Reception : Thursday, June 9: 6-8PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, July 2: 4–6PM
SABINE CARLSON * ARLENE FINGER * ROSEMARY LYONS * SHAWN MARSHALL MICHAEL RECK * LAURA RUTHERFORD RENNER * KAREN ROTH
Chelsea NY: Viridian Artists is pleased to present an exhibition of outstanding art by artists who are part of Viridian Artists' Affiliate program. The show opens June 7th and continues through July 2nd, 2022 with a reception to meet the artists Thursday June 9th, 6-8PM. The artists featured in this exhibit are Sabine Carlson, Arlene Finger, Rosemary Lyons, Shawn Marshall, Michael Reck, Laura Rutherford Renner and Karen Roth. In addition to seeing this exhibit in person, you can view this fascinating exhibit on the Viridian Artists website at www.viridianartists.com.
Our lives continue to be on edge and it is safe to say that most everyone is anticipating better times and a return to old times, but the likelihood is that our lives are changed forever. The artworks of the artists in this exhibit give a clue as to how their creative process has helped them to endure, reflect their concerns and anticipate solutions.
Sabine Carlson creates fanciful 12 inch square paintings on wood about the thin ice of today’s existence with her creatures traversing color landscapes on skates or floating devices so that they are ready for anything. Talking about the meanings in these works the artist states: "I strive for these encounters to exude a sense of shared displacement that leaves room to anticipate ways untenable circumstances might be changed.”
For Arlene Finger, color and line are important characteristics of her work. She feels architectural rendering, room interiors and eco-friendly ideas imitate life in her compositions.
The artist Rosemary Lyons has continued making her illuminated paintings but because of the pandemic and personal health issues found it unable to create for a year, and the work she has created since has a totally different tone. Always political in her subject matter, this series “Now that I have Your Attention”, pairs beautifully detailed illuminated paintings of vehicles with uncomfortable captions intended to reflect the anger and confusion of the moment.
Shawn Marshall’s abstract work explores our impact on the environment through an overhead lens, viewed like unearthed excavations of cities, garden ruins, gritty sidewalks, empty billboards, etc. Though worn and rough, with imprints and patterns left from human imposition, beauty still exists. As we explore the weathered layers, we find remnants known and unknown, man-made and natural, leaving us with a memory of what was, and a sense of wonder and hope about the future.
Laura Rutherford Renner enjoys painting figures engaged in the experience of their environments. Her work has been recently described as “Bold, brave, and a true voice.” Renner states: “Capturing contemporary life snap shots in two dimensions is an exercise and a source of calm. I relish mixing pure colors, keeping my palette simple to create authentic observation. The quiet engagement of brush to palette and brush to board provides meaning for me every day”. Laura, an occupational therapist for the past 27 years, has recently retired from this important work. She lives with her husband, their child, and their snarky, beloved cat, Lulu.
Michael Reck refers to these recent works as The Medusa Paintings. Medusa, whose hair was instead live venomous snakes, Reck uses as inspiration for his strokes of pigment snaking across the surface of the canvas, blending as they cross, becoming as unfocussed as the vision of those who gazed on Medusa and turned to stone.
Karen Roth’s current work consists of abstract paintings with geometric, colorful shapes set against a primarily monotoned and textured background. The movement of the shapes and colors the artist feels can be interpreted as the excitement of anticipation.
We look forward to sharing these diverse artistic responses to this strange and uncomfortable moment in time we are currently caught in as we anticipate the future.
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